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  • Chatter and Machine Tools

    by Brian Stone ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Focussing on occurrences of unstable vibrations, or Chatter, in machine tools, this book gives important insights into how to eliminate chatter with associated improvements in product quality, surface finish and tool wear.Covering a wide range of machining processes, including turning, drilling, milling and grinding, the author uses his research expertise and practical knowledge of vibration ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The City and the Coming Climate

    Climate Change in the Places We Live

    by Brian Stone, Jr Jr ...
    This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Radical Adaptation

    Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World

    by Brian Stone, Jr ...
    This book considers the everyday conduits through which climate instability is revealing itself: the storm sewer drain on your street, the powerlines transporting your electricity, the mix of vegetation in your backyard or neighborhood park – these are the pathways through which climate change is most likely to impact your life. For many, these are the last places we expect it to. The first book ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Love Visions

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Stone ...
    Translated by Brian Stone ...
    Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Kindred Spirit

    by Brian Stoneking ...
    The small town of Gallenaville, Wisconsin, is the image of what every town should be. From the outside it seems to be a picture-perfect town. But when outsiders discover the truth of this quiet quaint little town all hell breaks loose. A secret has been kept in this town for years. An evil in this town has been unleashed. A small group of college students come to this quiet little town looking for ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Shadows on the Moon

    by Brian Stoneking ...
    On a moon outpost miles from earth an experiment is taking place. Bodies of the dead are being reanimated and made into soldiers for military warfare. A computer chip called Kronos 19 allows these bodies to be brought back to life. At first everything is operating smoothly, but now something has gone totally wrong. The main computer controlling these ghouls has malfunctioned, causing them to wreak ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Second Coming

    Under the Flesh

    by Brian Stoneking ...
    A race of alien vampires have over taken the planet. Now it's up to a small band of slayers to back the planet in this apocalyptic future society. In a world where humans and vampires are at constant war with each other and entire cities are in ruins. The only way to have a fun challenge is to have sword fightening competitions in old run down shopping malls. Now the only way to clam back the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • There Is No Place for Us

    Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Brian Goldstone ...
    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    There Is No Place for Us

    Working and Homeless in America

    by Brian Goldstone ...
    Narrated by Brian Goldstone, Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 19 min

    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland

    by Brian James Stone ...
    Series series Knowledge Communities
    The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a series of three case studies, Brian James Stone traces the textual transmission of rhetorical theories and practices from the late Roman period to those early Irish monastic communities who would not ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Play and Literacy

    Play & Culture Studies, Volume 16

    by Myae Han, Kathleen A. Roskos, Renée Casbergue, Julie Parrish, M. Angel Bestwick, Tori K. Flint, Sandra J. Stone, Brian A. Stone, Sohyun Meacham0, Timothy M. Vetere1, Matthew E. Poehner2, Marine Pepanyan3 ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment? This edited collection, Play and Literacy: Play & Culture Studies provides a direct answer and solutions to this question. Researchers and theorists have argued for decades that play is the best way to learn language and literacy for children. This book provides theoretical and historical foundation of connection between play and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Play and Curriculum

    Play & Culture Studies

    by Marleah Blom, Miranda D'Amico, Beth Ferholt, Abby Loebenberg, Robert L. Mack, Laurel Bongiorno, S. Lynneth Solis, Sudha Swaminathan, Alison Hooper, Juana Gaviria-Loaiza, Cailin Kerch, Brian A. Stone, Lora Lorentsen, Meghan Schmidt, Heather J. Pinedo-Burns, Ilfa Zhulamanova, Jeffrey Trawick-Smith ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the ... Read more

    $38.89 USD